Questions tagged [du]
"du" is the Linux command for reporting Disk Usage
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Equivalent of “du --time -h” (or something similar) in Solaris
How can I get something similar to du -h --time at solaris?
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Is there a way to force du to report a directory size (recursively) including only sizes of files?
Suppose I create a directory test/, with two files (test/a, test/b) and an inner directory test/c with a file test/c/d, like this:
mkdir test
cd test
touch a
echo 1 > a
touch b
echo 1 > b
mkdir ...
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How do I quickly calculate the size of a directory?
I want to calculate the size of my home directory, which has a lot of sub directories.
It takes about 40 seconds to run du.
Is there a quicker way?
$ time du -sh
5.0G .
real 0m39.676s
user ...
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choose between df and du in linux
I need to check the used space in some folders, and I need it to be fast to check because it will be inside a script.
Which command should I use, "du -h" or "df -h"??
Shirkkan
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du only for directories
In C-Shell, how can I get the same output as du -sh ./* but without listing the files in the root dir, i.e. just a list of subdirectories in ./ and the sizes of all their contents?
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what is faster, du or stat?
Which goes faster on Linux/Unix?
du -b file.dat
or:
stat -c %s file.dat
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Why does du -sl show different sizes for the source and result of a cp -rl?
I have used cp -rl to copy a folder. When measuring the size of the source and of the result of the copy du -sl returns slightly different sizes, even though diff confirms that their content are ...
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How to analyse disk usage in command line linux?
du and df are nice, but I don't know how to filter the data they provide the way I do with SequoiaView. I would like to know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance.
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why does `du` not show results for all files?
I (for curiosity's sake) am running du -a inside /usr/lib/git-core and it does not show results for all the files in that directory. Why does it leave out an arbitrary set of files?
this is what cd /...
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Equivalent of "du --max-depth=0 -h" (or something similar) in Solaris
The du command in my solaris environment has very terse help, no man page, and doesn't support the --max-depth option seen in the linux world.
I want to know how much space a given directory occupies....
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Difference between df -k and du -sh
df -k
/dev/sda6 25396228 21249088 2836240 89% /export
21G used
versus
du -sh /export
3.4G /export
The 3.4G is correct because we have removed all non essential file but free ...
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How does du determine which hard link to disregard?
We have two directories:
$ ls -l
total 8
drwxr-x--- 2 nimmy nimmy 4096 Nov 15 19:42 jeter
drwxr-x--- 2 nimmy nimmy 4096 Nov 15 19:42 mariano
I create one file in the first folder:
$ dd if=/dev/zero ...
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How do I find out which file type is taking up the most space?
I have a zillion little files in a complex folder hierarchy; these are taking up too much space (ie. terabytes). I'd like to find out which file type (ie., .pdf etc) is taking up all the room so that ...
Alex
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Why do Finder and du report different file size?
I am writing a geektool 3 script to show the size of a particular VMware Fusion virtual machine. Such .vmwarevm "file" is really a packaged directory.
Get Info in Finder says the file is "52.91 GB". ...
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